Excavate means to dig up, generally out of the ground.
Example sentence:
A bull dozer was used to excavate the foundation of the building.
they will excavate the ground for the city of Shang.
Example sentence - We use heavy machinery to excavate ground to build roads and buildings.
"Ex" from the Latin, meaning "out of" or "away from".Some other examples of this root are expand, explode, and excavate.
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It is difficult to excavate rocks from a building site.
the explorers continued to EXCAVATE the dirt for fossils.
The builders will excavate at the work site
The team of archaeolgists will now begin to excavate the site.
To fix the water pipe, the workers had to excavate beneath the sidewalk.
The archaeologists will excavate the site next month to uncover ancient artifacts buried under the ground.
The archaeologists began to excavate the ancient ruins in search of valuable artifacts.
Normally they use drills and spades (not children's).
excavate
As a noun, "excavate" refers to the act of digging or making a hole in the ground to uncover archaeological artifacts or remnants of the past. It can also refer to a site where excavation work is being carried out.
The noun forms of the verb to excavate are excavator, excavation, and the gerund, excavating.
Excavate is not a prefix; it is a word. It does contain the prefix "ex-" which means "out" in this instance.